New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-22
CHAT WITH LUNG PATIENTS
nv vorrs p ENRICH, LATE OF NETWORK.
EIGHT YEARS EXPERIENCE IN CLIMATE
HUNTING.


Of lung disease, my conviction that the disease
ran be arrested and in many cases cured oy 'n0
proper climatic influences and further, my KNOW,
edgo of the difficulty of obtaining unpreJudiceu
Information as to the character OF chma'es-@,
these considerations have induced me TO pupn'n
the following record of my experience as iuhs
patient VII -
was a merchant in New-York City Like my
moro pumincnt fellow merchants OF that inau n'o
tronolis I was consumed with wild aniDitloh
not only to develop my business TO vas1 proper
tons. but also to out-distance all competitors
NV partners and / worked with intense energy
we condensed the work of a month into WIZ IN
I'VE centred our whole life in our business
prospercd rapidly, but increased prosperity o'''
added fuel to our ambition. to- r,,,
The question of health never entered ln'o NY
calculation I allowed myself no vacation,
- roo,izod the need of rest. For several
years my face had worn that pale, haggaro en-
nrossion which might be called the New-iorK Dust
noss.man,s complexion but experienced no moi-
cations NJ weakness or Of ill health. one morning
an AUGUST. 1878. l awole with strange waim'
soft feeling in my throat. 1t was hemorrhase
from tho right lung. Then the overwork vi
years declared itself, my nervous force was Ton,-
pletely exhausted, and violent fever foooeu
me of flesh and strength.
"Complete change" tho doctors said, Europe
n years rest - / asked "Where shal the yea. y"
spent Pr My own physician frankly aohlO' g
that no knew little about European chiiiA'eS ~
we consulted one of the great authorities Lie
authority advised that / spend the winter III hoio'
Let me say right here that, in my OPINION 'no
winter climate of Rome is one oil inc "oisu III
t,,rone for a consumptve, and further, thaI tiiS
first consultation proved to me what many Suo
scouent consultations have proved more sVioneS'
namely that American physicians Sand EUR
physicians, for that natter know very AO'i0 49,
climates. A successful American physician is just
ms busy in his business as was in mine' lie
NAV read reports of physicians, who naturally are
incIined TO extol the climate Of their own locaty
hut he knows nothing on the subject from per-
sonal experience, and personal experience lhe
only safe guido In the question OF judging Gu
mates.
To Europe went On the road to Marseilles
,,honoo 7 intended TO take steamer for Rome via
Ciyita yeccha), fell into talk with an EngSh-
man who Informed me that the climate oil Nice ana
Mentone was infinitely preferable to that OF Rome
AS | was only few hours travel from Nlce'
resolved to 60 there as an experiment. Never
shall I forget my fist day at Nice coming
from the snow and piercing damp OF Paris 10 inc
soft. baImy air Of the Riviera, with us senn
tropical vegetation. its lovely walks ana drives
its enchanting outlook on to the deep due Meui-
terranean, it seemed to me as IL L had Deeh Trans
,,o,tod n Paradise. That winter spent on the
Riviera principally at Mentone. Finally, on
March / much against the advice of friends,
sto,tod for Rome. I spent seven weeks in the
Eternal City, subsequently going to sorrento
Florence and Venice, but at none of these places
did find, even late in the spring, the weather Us
mild and sunny as it had been at Nice ana Men
tone in midwinter. About the middle OF June
arrived at Munich and consulted Professor BUM
lat that time a great South German medical au-
thority) as to where should spend the summer
4 had heard a great deal of Davos, Switzerland
and wanted to go there. Professor Buhl' now
over informed me with an air of wisdom, that the
altitude If Dayos 5000 feet was provocative
Of hemorrhage, and sent me first TO Sodcn' pleas
ant little watering place near Franhfort-on-the'
Main and later to Heiden, an insignificant RESORT
naar Lake Constance, where ! felt So mseraby
that 7 WAS glad TO leave it. The summer over
musicians pronounced me "almost we'll Con-
s,,m,tiye reader never let the phrase almost
welln impose upon you AS Scotch physician
to whom l repeated the expression truth1uiy
said: 1T is like saying that there is only very
small spark still alight in the powder magazine
That tiny spark may produce death ana oes'ruc-
ton No rational man ought TO be satlSheo
until that last spark has been thoroughly stamped
out"
returned to New-Yorlx in October and remained
there all winter. Three hours of every morn
ing / gave up to business and The afternoons
devoted to horseback riding. l seemed 10 iii
prove constantly, so that when, the 1ono"lns
June | had my lungs examined by the laee Dr'
Austin Flint, he pronounced me penecIly we'll
no make assurance doubly sure, spent that sum
mer camping out in the Adirondack mountain
i continued to gain in weight and strength I'D
the middle of August camo one OF those urenol
ing rains common TO the Adirondack region II
rained three successive days. soaked INC camp
and surroundings, and lowered the temperature
very considerably. / caught severe cold which
4 could not throw of in the mountains ana wmci
stn chung to me when l reached New-Iork IL
sertenber. Consumptives give heed looked
the pictlrc of health, / weighed twenty pounds
moro than before was first taken sick, ana only
three months before DR.. Flint had pronounced I'M
nerfectly we'll began TO devote moro Time u
business, giving up only part Of the Afternoon
tn horseback riding. Five weeks had scarcely
passed when, riding in Central Park,
began to cough violently, expectoraoeS
blood. and at once heard in my ches
that dreadful crunching sound which betokcnS
hemorrhage. Scarcely had reached nome ant
bed before O violent hcmorrhage declared ltseii
Thehemorrhagcs REQUIRED again and again, ana
was six months before left my room. wen
10 Aiken, South Carolina, for Six weeks IL di'
me no good. Tho summer passed at the Noun
tain House, Corpwall-on-the-Hudson, where IN
health steadily improved. In the fall went Z
Europe. The first three years / spent at the FOL
lowing places: Three winters at Mentone' wv
xprinr seasons in Italy, one spring at Merau il
the Tyrol, two summers at Reichenhall, Bavaria
enc summer in Engelberg, Switzerland. 1 in
moved somewhat all the time, but, altogether
very inconsidersbly.
The conviction finally forced itself upon m
A.. 4laara ,zras M clIratiya quality for lun